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Two of my all time favorite authors, Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, coined the phrase, ”Code [your project] as if the next guy to maintain it is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.” I truly wish more people would take that to heart. All too often I am working on a maintenance task, and I find that I spend more time trying to figure out what the hell the code is doing than I spend actually fixing the bug.
Take, for instance, the following real code snippet that a colleague of mine recently sent me…
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SD West, one of the nation’s premier software development conventions, just concluded SD West 2008. Yours truly was fortunate enough to be able to attend, and for an entire fun filled week I got to embrace my inner geek and participate in tutorials on Agile Estimating and Planning, attend classes on Test Driven Development, and visit expo booths to play Guitar Hero (Hey - we may be developers, but we’re aren’t total nerds!). I even managed to go on a Segway Tour of San Francisco. OK, that last one was a little nerdy, but still pretty fun!
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In 1993, the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University published a study named A Study in Software Maintenance. As part of this study, one task was to examine the development processes and the software tools used within maintenance (life-cycle support) projects. Three pervasive themes presented themselves in the findings: Tools, People, and Software Process.
This is the first in a three part blog to compare the findings of that 1993 paper with the general climate of software maintenance today. The first area of findings that we will look at is the area of Tools.
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While this is a little off from my usual topic of Software Reliability and Maintainability, it was still too interesting not to blog about. Big name internet marketers Ted Murphy of Izea and Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney are putting on a contest to determine the next Shoeperstar Winner. To win, bloggers have to, well, blog about why they think they should be the Shoeperstar. It presents a very interesting example of the power of viral marketing and SEO. All of the blog entries will undoubtedly link back to both Izea and ShoeMoney, further bolstering there already impressive SEO rankings.
Former Sundogger and rising blogosphere star Max Pool of Code Squeeze has thrown his name into the ring with his entry, 10 Reasons Why I Am A Shoeperstar Contest Winner.
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No matter whose IT predictions you look at for 2008, software as a service (SaaS) looms big. For those not familiar with this term, SaaS is software that customers do not pay to own. Rather, it is an on-demand system usually hosted through a third party and customers access the software’s applications via the Internet.
The SaaS model has seen tremendous growth in the last few years primarily because it is easier and costs less to implement than large enterprise systems that reside on a company’s own servers. Some fast-growing SaaS vendors include companies such as Salesforce.com, RightNow, and NetSuite, but there are many companies charging hard to catch-up in this sector including software giants Microsoft and Oracle.
There are a number of stories that have surfaced in the last few months indicating SaaS has reached a crucial tipping point, and 2008 may be the year that it begins its breakout to become the norm for most companies:
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